I have an Intel 536EP PCI modem which is recognized fine by Kanotix (KInfoCenter lists it), but when I want to set up dial-up networking with KPPP, what device will it be, since /dev/modem is not pre-defined?

I've queried a few possible devices with KPPP, but they are all "unknown modem". Will it be a pseudo-serial device (even though it's a PCI card) or something else? (MEPIS 6.0 recognizes it and links /dev/modem to /dev/536ep0) The Kanotix utilities all seem to want a serial device specified.

But that's the core of the problem - how do I find out which device the card corresponds to? I've experimented querying ttyS0-17 within KPPP and got nowhere. Could the lspci (or other) command tell us this?

The Kanotix My PPP Conf asks for a device, which defaults to /dev/ttyS0. Other than that it gives no guidance what you could type in - at least KPPP gives a long list of likely devices to choose from. There's surely got to be a better way than trying 'em all!

Kano

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It seems the driver you would need does not compile on newer kernels. Mepis uses a very old one (2.6.15) can not be really compared to newer ones.

Thanks for the information, Kano and piper. That link is incredibly useful for reference.

Under Windows, I checked and the modem card is seen as COM3, which would correspond to /dev/ttyS2 presumably. It's identified by Windows as a Creatix V.92 DSP Data-Fax-Modem, type CTX402_8. According to the reference, I see the DSP modems have a patchy chance of working under Linux. (Booting DOS first? That's would be fun!)

I also have an Ambient Creatix V.90 HaM Data/Fax/Voice PCI (aka "Intel HaM") in another PC which could be tested some time. Would that one have a better chance of working, I wonder?

kelmo

Titel: RE: Thanks for the replies Verfasst am: 08.08.2006, 03:28 Uhr

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A hardware modem, connected via serial port, is the failsafe option. That will rarely let you down.